HF Hits Older Women on Breast Cancer Drugs

cp418

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/CHF/35971?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=WC&xid=NL_DHE_2012-11-16&eun=g376694d0r&userid=376694&email=jlong@i-review.com&mu_id=5369993

dlb823

Yikes!  Those stats are terrible!  I think most of us know that Adriamycin and Herceptin can both cause heart damage, but it sounds like they're especially dangerous when combined, and even more so in older women.  

I'm wondering if doing integrative things like a very healthy diet and getting a lot of exercise -- things that might normally lower the risk of heart disease -- would have any impact on those stats, or if there's anything else protective women can do?      Deanna

Outfield

I don't think there should have been so much mixing of statistical representations of risk in that article.  Yes, it's a problem, but it's really annoying they garbled it so much.